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The Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) is welcoming a new agreement that will give Saint Mary’s Hospital a significant lifeline, while cautioning that the new business plan could erode the hospital’s public healthcare services over the longer term. …

Leafletting session, Thursday, March 27, 3:00 p.m.; Royal Jubilee Hospital As the Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) moves forward with its aggressive privatization agenda, health care workers are taking their message — that contracting out doesn’t …

Click here for “Transparent” version now available at www.heu.org Citing the public interest, B.C.’s largest health care union has asked the provincial information and privacy commissioner to order the Fraser Health Authority to release the full …

Vancouver Police Board, September 17, 3:30 pm Vancouver Council City Services & Budget Committee, September 18, 9:30 am Mounting anxieties about the impending privatization of security services at Vancouver’s two largest hospitals have prompted a …

As B.C.’s health authorities finalize their plans to lay off thousands of health care workers, Hospital Employees’ Union members will gather outside many hospitals and long-term care facilities on Thursday to raise the alarm about the impact of these …

A weekend poll released today by the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE) show rising public opposition to the privatization of hospital services and overwhelming support for direct negotiations between health care unions, employers and government to find …

Employees of the Downtown Eastside Youth Activities Society (DEYAS), which delivers a unique range of primary outreach services to youth in Vancouver’s inner city, have voted to join the Hospital Employees’ Union (CUPE). Although the vote was held …

The B.C. government’s plans to privatize health care support services will turn back the clock on women’s wages to levels unseen since the late 1960s and put patient care at risk, according to a new study by Simon Fraser University economist Marjorie …

HEU demands immediate release of IHA’s review into the fate of 32 hospitals The Interior Health Authority will slash $56 million from direct services to patients and residents, according to a secret government briefing document released to the media …

And Campbell’s prime time attack on health care workers won’t help, says union In what should serve as a stinging reality check for the Liberal government, British Columbians say by an overwhelming majority that they don’t trust Premier Campbell to …